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TIL Las Vegas looked like your ordinary spaghetti western town in 1910

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R5ne8 TIL In the Battle of Kartarpur 1,800 Sikhs under Guru Hargobind fought an army of at least 52,000 Mughals who were led by an ex Sikh general, the governor of Peshwar, and governor of Jalandhar. The Sikh won and killed at least 50,000 Mughals.
nWoEG TIL - Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children's Home Society which helped make adoption mainstream, but did so by abducting and selling children born to poor and unwed mothers. One of those abducted babies grew up to be Ric Flair.
Z8EgD TIL George Fan (Designer and Creator of Plants vs Zombies) was fired by EA in 2012 for refusing to add microtransactions as he was against the idea of making Plants vs Zombies a pay to win game.
ZYyD TIL that during the Falklands War, British soldier Philip Williams was knocked unconscious by an explosion. When he awoke the next day he was lost and walked aimlessly for months. He was declared dead before being found 7 weeks after the end of hostilities. He was unaware the conflict had ended.
XEn5Q TIL that the Montreal theme park "La Ronde" which was created for the 1967 World Fair, was designed in part by none other than Walt Disney himself.